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Vietnam Reconciliation
NPR's Daniel Zerdling reports from Vietnam that 25 years after the end of the war, North and South Vietnam are still struggling with reconciliation. Peace has transformed the unified Vietnam. NPR's Daniel Zwerdling continues his exploration of Vietnam, a quarter century after the end of the war.
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TET OFFENSIVE
Robert talks with Stanley Karnow, the author of "Vietnam: A History." Karnow was the chief correspondent in the PBS series "Vietnam: A Television History" and was present in Vietnam in 1959, when the first Americans were killed in the region. Karnow talks about the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.
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Vietnam
April 30th is the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. John Biewen reports on how Vietnam has been documented and re-interpreted since its ending. Movies have depicted Vietnam Vets as violently unbalanced, vengeful, chemically addicted, or homeless...
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VIETNAM WAR ART
In 1981, a collective in Chicago began assembling, preserving, and exhibiting art created by Vietnam veterans. In 1996, the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum was inaugurated in Chicago. Today - Veterans' Day - the museum is putting out a catalogue of images from its collection paired with writings by the artists written while they were in Vietnam.
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TET OFFENSIVE 30TH ANNIVERSARY
\r GUESTS: \r Don Oberdorfer \nJournalist-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies \nAuthor, Tet: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War [DaCapo Press, 1986] \r Ronald Specter \nChairman, Department of History, George Washington University Author, After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam and Advice and Support: the Early Years of the US Army in Vietnam \r This weeks marks the 30th anniversary of the Tet offensive, a turning point for American involvement in the ...
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Cohen- Vietnam
Linda speaks with US Defense Secretary William Cohen, who is visiting Vietnam. Cohen is the first US Defense Secretary to visit the country since the Vietnam war. He says the highest priority in Vietnam for the US remains the recovery of the bodies of Americans killed during the war.
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Vietnam Trade
NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports the U-S has announced that it ready to resume normal trade with Vietnam. US investment in Vietnam lags far behind European countries and Japan. Despite tentative steps to open up to the world, Vietnam remains a very poor country.
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Vietnam Returnees
NPR's Eric Weiner reports that increasing numbers of American veterans are returning to Vietnam to resolve questions about the Vietnam War... or, in some cases, to look for business opportunities. One of them, a veteran who was shot down in Vietnam a quarter century ago, is now living in the country he fought.
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VIETNAM/US BIKE RIDE
-- Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator Diana Nyad [NIGH-ad] about the Vietnam Challenge Team's 1400-mile bike trip from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. She is among 55 riders, including former Tour de France winner Greg LeMond and Vietnam veterans. The trip was organized to foster better relations between the U-S and Vietnam.
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. VIETNAM & THE U.S.
The United States and Vietnam are close to normalizing elations two decades after the end of the Vietnam War. NPR's Ted Clark takes a ook at the evolution of this tense relationship since the fall of Saigon, and eports on how the U.S. continued it "war" against Vietnam long after the April 0th pull-out twenty years ago today. 8:10 . VIETNAM & THE U.S.
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